🇩🇪 Germany Gelbe Seiten Scraper | Fast B2B Lead Extractor

Extract verified German B2B company leads, direct telephone numbers, physical street addresses, websites, emails, and ratings directly from Gelbe Seiten (Germany's official commercial Yellow Pages directory — gelbeseiten.de).

{
  "company_name": "ICT Berlin GmbH",
  "industry_category": "IT-Beratung",
  "direct_phone": "+49 30 2249 4045",
  "address": "Lübbenauer Weg 52, 12527 Berlin-Grünau",
  "city": "Berlin",
  "website": "https://ict-berlin.de",
  "email": "info@ict-berlin.de",
  "rating": "4.8",
  "review_count": "12",
  "gelbeseiten_url": "https://www.gelbeseiten.de/gsbiz/506a7f92-c0be-4a24-9b2f-3d6061f22e8d",
  "data_source": "gelbeseiten.de"
}

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📌 Overview: Why Gelbe Seiten is Germany's #1 Commercial Directory

Gelbe Seiten (Yellow Pages Germany / Gelbeseiten) is the country's most established and authoritative business registry. With over 3.5 million registered commercial entities across Germany's 16 federal states, it is the primary directory used by German tradespeople (Handwerker), medical clinics (Ärzte), engineering firms (Mittelstand), law practices (Kanzleien), IT consultancies, and local businesses.

Unlike generic search engines or global map directories which frequently include closed businesses or scraped duplicates, Gelbe Seiten entries are verified against German regional chambers of commerce (IHK / HWK), ensuring high data reliability for sales and market research.

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⚡ Key Features & Capabilities

• 🚀 Automated AJAX Pagination: Crawl seamlessly from 10 up to 10,000+ businesses across multi-page directory listings using intelligent AJAX chunking.
• 📞 Verified Direct Phone Numbers: Voice lines are extracted and formatted cleanly (with Fax numbers automatically filtered out).
• 📍 Complete German Street Addresses: Full physical street address, building number, 5-digit postal code (PLZ), city, and metropolitan district.
• 🌐 Clean External Website Extraction: Strips tracking parameters, redirect wrappers, and publisher ads (bfb.de, sellwerk.de, dastelefonbuch.de) to deliver the company's real external homepage URL.
• ⭐ Star Ratings & Review Counts: Captures customer ratings (1.0 to 5.0) and review volumes to identify top-rated service providers.
• 🇩🇪 Full German Umlaut & Regional Support: Handles special characters (ä, ö, ü, ß) and regional queries across major hubs (München, Köln, Düsseldorf, Nürnberg) and smaller municipalities.
• 🤖 Autonomous AI Agent & n8n Ready: Pure Pay-Per-Event (PPE) schema allows n8n, Make, LangChain, Claude, and custom AI agents to query German leads on demand.

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🔄 1-Click n8n Automation Template (Recurring CRM Sync)

Automate your lead generation by syncing fresh Gelbe Seiten leads directly into Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot, or Instantly every week!

flowchart LR
    A["⏰ Trigger<br/>(On Demand / Weekly)"] --> B["🇩🇪 Step 1: Gelbe Seiten Scraper<br/>(Pulls 50–500 Companies)"]
    B --> C{"Filter<br/>Has Website?"}
    C -->|Yes| D["👔 Step 2: Impressum Extractor<br/>(Extracts CEO & Email)"]
    D --> E["📊 Final Output<br/>(Google Sheets / CRM)"]

📥 Ready-to-Use n8n Template: Download our ready-to-import n8n workflow JSON:
german_b2b_lead_machine_n8n_template.json — Copy and paste directly onto your n8n canvas!

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💡 The 2-Step B2B Power Funnel: From Directory to CEO Inbox

This scraper is designed to work as the Upstream Discovery Engine for your European outbound sales pipeline:

[ Step 1: Gelbe Seiten Scraper ] ───►  Scrapes 2,000 German company websites & phones ($1.00 / 1k)
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                └───► (Export CSV / URLs)
[ Step 2: Impressum Extractor  ] ───►  Crawls /impressum to extract the Managing Director (CEO)
                                       and personal email under German federal law (§ 5 DDG)

🎯 Cross-Sell Pro-Tip: Take the company websites extracted by this tool and feed them into our Germany B2B Lead & Impressum Extractor to legally unlock the Managing Director (Geschäftsführer / Inhaber) names and direct emails!

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📥 Input Parameters

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description	Example
city	String	Yes	Berlin	German city, municipality, or postal district	Berlin, München, Hamburg, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart
industry	String	Yes	IT-Beratung	Business category, trade, or keyword	IT-Beratung, Steuerberater, Maschinenbau, Zahnarzt, Immobilien
max_leads	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of leads to collect (1 to 10,000)	50, 250, 1000

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🎯 Top High-Value German Niches to Scrape

Industry Keyword	Target City	Target Audience / Commercial Value
Steuerberater	München	Certified German Tax Advisors with high-ticket retainers
Finanzberatung	Frankfurt am Main	Financial consultants & asset managers in Europe's banking hub
Maschinenbau	Stuttgart	Industrial machinery & German Mittelstand manufacturers
Softwareentwicklung	Berlin	Fast-growing SaaS startups and digital agencies
Rechtsanwälte	Hamburg	Commercial law firms, patent attorneys, and corporate counsels
Immobilienmakler	Düsseldorf	Commercial and residential real estate brokerages
Zahnarzt	Köln	High-income private dental practices and medical clinics

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📊 Output Dataset Specification

Data is exported in Excel (.xlsx), CSV, JSON, or XML with the following structured attributes:

Column Name	Type	Description	Sample Value
company_name	String	Official registered company name	ICT Berlin GmbH
industry_category	String	Targeted industry or trade category	IT-Beratung
direct_phone	String	Cleaned direct telephone number	+49 30 2249 4045
address	String	Full street, building number, and postal code	Lübbenauer Weg 52, 12527 Berlin-Grünau
city	String	City name	Berlin
website	String	Official company website URL	https://ict-berlin.de
email	String	Directory listing contact email	info@ict-berlin.de
rating	String	Average star rating out of 5.0	4.8
review_count	String	Total number of published customer reviews	12
gelbeseiten_url	String	Official Gelbe Seiten directory record link	https://www.gelbeseiten.de/gsbiz/...
data_source	String	Directory source of record	gelbeseiten.de

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💻 Programmatic Usage & API Integration

Python (apify-client)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN")

run_input = {
    "city": "München",
    "industry": "Steuerberater",
    "max_leads": 100
}

run = client.actor("dach_leads/germany-gelbe-seiten-scraper-fast-b2b-lead-extractor").call(run_input=run_input)

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(f"{item['company_name']} | {item['direct_phone']} | {item['website']}")

Node.js (apify-client)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_API_TOKEN' });

const input = {
    city: 'Frankfurt am Main',
    industry: 'Finanzberatung',
    max_leads: 100,
};

const run = await client.actor('dach_leads/germany-gelbe-seiten-scraper-fast-b2b-lead-extractor').call(input);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();

console.log(`Extracted ${items.length} German leads from Gelbe Seiten.`);

cURL (Direct HTTP API)

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/dach_leads~germany-gelbe-seiten-scraper-fast-b2b-lead-extractor/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"city": "Berlin", "industry": "IT-Beratung", "max_leads": 50}'

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💰 Transparent Pay-per-Result Pricing

• Only $1.00 per 1,000 verified leads ($0.001 per result) — 70% cheaper than generic market scrapers.
• $0.00 Actor Start Fee — Zero upfront cost to spin up runs.
• Zero Platform Surcharge — Pure pay-per-event pricing without hidden compute charges.
• Free Test Allowance — Free tier users can test and scrape business records without credit card commitments.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Q: How does this scraper handle pagination across hundreds of companies?

A: Gelbe Seiten serves Page 1 as standard HTML and subsequent pages via internal dynamic AJAX endpoints. This scraper automatically handles session tokens, position offsets, and AJAX payload chunks, allowing you to extract thousands of companies uninterrupted.

Q: Are the extracted phone numbers and websites real?

A: Yes. The Actor visits each business's individual Yellow Pages detail listing (/gsbiz/), extracts the real external website URL (stripping ad agency redirects), and captures verified telephone numbers while excluding fax lines.

Q: How can I find the CEO / Managing Director names for these companies?

A: Gelbe Seiten only lists company-level directory data. To get the personal name of the CEO (Geschäftsführer) and their direct email, export your results and feed the website URLs into our Germany B2B Lead & Impressum Extractor.

Q: Does this scraper require residential proxies?

A: No. The scraper uses optimized HTTP connection pooling and polite request throttling, allowing it to run reliably on standard connections without triggering CAPTCHAs.